Corona Devotionals

Did you ever learn to take your own pulse? Either at the wrist, or by pressing on the vein in our upper (outer) neck: you can feel a heartbeat there...a pulse. Life , flowing through...steady, rhythmic: evidence of being alive. But my faith-pulse has become very weak lately...has yours? Not-so-strong, less sturdy, and hard to even discern. I can blame any number of things from stress, to busy-ness, to not enough hours in the day, but the fact remains that I have become a bit lukewarm in living for the Lord, and as a result, I have felt the Lord press a little harder, so that He (and I) might detect and find my faith pulse once again. We are not really living (as the Lord intends us to) if our hearts are not beating for the Lord and His purposes, and we know it when we are spiritually-alive. We are full. We are incensed and instigated for His purposes, and there's no better fulfillment in (this) life. Riches, delicacies, travel, and fame--- none of it compares to bei...

                                 Thank you to the lady at the grocery store that chatted with me in the check-out line and then gave me a Christian cartoon book as we bagged our groceries.   " It's a comic book for Easter ", she said lightly as she placed the small booklet it in my hand, and later when I read through it, I saw that she had  shared the Gospel of Jesus  with me in comic-form, and I thought, " What an easy way to share God's love and truth". Going into the world and " preaching the gospel to every creature " does not have to come from a pulpit, or from a professor in front of a Bible classroom. It can come with a warm smile and a tiny comic book.  And He said to them,  “Go into all the world   and preach the gospel to every creature.  ( 16)  He who believes and is baptized will be saved;   but he who does not believe will be ...

Do not miss what Jesus did. Do not miss that Jesus died. Do not miss that Jesus death-denied. Do not miss that Jesus death-defied. On the day  that Jesus rose from the dead...(later in that day), two men walked a road and  Jesus himself came up and walked along with them  but they were kept from recognizing him (Luke 24:15). We cannot  miss (refuse to see) Jesus in our lives, Friends.  Don't  miss Jesus today. He walks along with  us ( Luke 24:15 ). He stands among  us ( Luke 24:36 ).   Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem.  ( 14)  They were talking with each other about everything that had happened.  ( 15)  As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them;  ( 16)  but they were kept from recognizing him.  ~Luke 24:13-16 We  cannot  miss Jesus in our lives, Frie...

It's the right time : today.   Just   the right time .  And it was a long time coming.   Thirty three years...since His birth.   Three sets of fourteen generations came before Him. All to get to the right time ... just the right time: celebrated today. And there was much for Him to come through. Miracles and healings.  Conspiracies and shady dealings. Old Testament Law reimagined and coming to fruition.  Some saw the Light, while others cried blasphem-ition! A Savior laying down all of His power...bearing the weight of our sin for hours. Until, there was no more jeering, no more pain, no more breath.  Jesus was slain, and it was  our sin , (not the Pharisees plotting) that brought His death.   But death didn't reign, and darkness prevailed not.  Nothing triumphs over the power of our God.   ~~~ It's  the right time :  today.   That Resurrection morning was  the right time....

We have all sinned.  All of us. ... for all have sinned  and fall short of the glory of God...  ~Romans 3:23 But--do we believe  this?  That we have sinned.  That we fall short of His holiness.  That He is perfect and righteous and worthy, and that He is God , and we--- are not.  Do we believe this? Most of us will agree to this--no sweat.  Yes, we've sinned...and God is holy, and He has not sinned.   But what about when we do sweat?  When the heat (or hurt) of life is on, and the stress and pressure and pain/fear/unknown rise within us and around us.   When the poop hits the fan--how do we treat God?  When life spirals out of control and we realize that we are not at the helm of our own ship--where does our heart go?  What does our mind think? What do our words say?   Where is our faith in God ? ~~~ Have we had any "bumps" in life's road lately?  Any sickness/death/diagnosis/injustice/pain?...